The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-10-10

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of Reform which you have protested
to favor"
Not at all. We are right in for
real genuine reform all the time.
This is precisely the article we want.
Office and emolument are not in the
line of our ambition. Reform is
all but a hollow mookery called by
that name cannot ill the bill. More
over, we believe that the Govern
ment, including the Boards, and the
Legislature recently elected, are
quite able as well as willing to work
out the reform needed and desired.
A little open criticism and an oc-
casional probing by an independent
press, will be q help and not hind
rance.
CHATS where you are wrong"
emphatically exclaimed our friend,
referring more particularly to what
was said respecting the Government,
"the Ministers went in there with
distinct pledges which they are re-
miss in fulfilling, and they must be
forced to do so by the men who put
them there. A half of the Ministers
should he turned out at once, and
two other men put in their places"
All, that's where we disagree
again. The Ministers went there
representing the public, and to the
public they are pledged. They are
not the Ministers of any private as
ISOLATION, and no such association
has any right to impose pledges
upon them. They represent the
whole people, and to the people
they are responsible through the
Legislature. The people, or any
portion of the people, have right
to openly petition or memorabilia
the Ministers upon any matters
whatsoever within their province,
but not to dictate to them their duty
and what they should do. The men
you refer to as "the men who put
the Ministers there" are presume
bly, the League. The League was
useful body, served good purpose,
and accomplished good end. In
telligent men, of all shades of poll
tical opinion acknowledge this. But
when the New Constitution was pro-
mulgated, the purpose for which the
League came into existence was ac-
complished, and that body should
have disbanded. Or at the latest,
when the elections returned over
whelming numbers for the Reform
party, the League should have
stepped quietly from the stage.
This is not merely our individual
opinion; it is the expressed opinion
of many members of that organiza-
ton. Now, sir, you don't need
telling that there has been large
amount of rabid talk floating around
lately-bl0od and cumberland that
threats of force have been freely
uttered. This, presumably, does
not emanate from the League, but
from an extreme and dissatisfied
faction of it, which has but little at
stake in the country. Is this a
pleasant or desirable state of things?
Peaceable and law-abiding citizens
do not think so, neither, if we mis-
take not, do the diplomatic repre-
sentativcs of foreign nations, nor the
foreign representatives lying in the
port Of Honolulu. We don't call
this reform, but something which
badly needs reforming. A turbu-
lent and irresponsible element swag-
gering about unseating Ministers,
because those Ministers have sense
enough TO know their rights and
courage enough to maintain them, is
something which neither this paper
nor a large proportion of this COM
munity can believe to be in the line
of true reform.
Here the gentleman looked at his
watch and started to leave, appar-
emily in a reflective frame of mind
when we asked for a brief extension
of the audience for few final
words,to which he tacitly consented.
The BULLETIN is steadily on the side
of good Government and the good
of the country. 1t cannot be divert
ed from this object. If in the pro-
secution of its self-imposed mission
it sees rotten spots in the party
pledged to the same ends, or among
adherents of the party, it would be
false to its trust to twink" at them.
1t has detected some such blemishes,
and put forth its humble efforts for
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